scholarly journals The Teaching Design of English Reading Based on Cultivating Students' Critical Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 993
Author(s):  
Yu Jia ◽  
Lei Guo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Design

The High School English Curriculum Standard (2017 edition) states that it's crucial to cultivate core competences for students, which includes language ability, learning ability, cultural awareness and thinking quality. There is no doubt that critical thinking, as one of the key components of thinking quality, should be emphasized.  However, due to the influence of examination-oriented education and other factors, most teachers tend to pay too much attention to the cultivation of students' language knowledge and language skills, neglecting the cultivation of students' critical thinking ability. The traditional mode of interpretation of language knowledge still dominates in most English reading teaching, teaching design tends to be modeled and text processing is so superficial that students can not understand the discourse deeply. Students in the classroom did not experience a deep thinking level of ability training. Therefore, teachers should think carefully about how to cultivate students’ critical thinking in high school English reading class and adjust their teaching methods accordingly. This paper will take the teaching design of a reading lesson as an example to explore how to cultivate students' critical thinking in high school reading class.

scholarly journals Interpreting Core Competencies of English as a Subject in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Juan Ma
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
The Core ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Reading Teaching ◽  
English Subject

The proposal of core competencies of English subject conforms to the goal for talent training, which puts forward higher requirements for English teaching. The core competencies of English subject include language ability, learning ability, thinking quality and cultural awareness. It emphasizes the development of students' core competencies, the cultivation of students' correct values and attitudes, and the realization of the educational value of English subject. Interpretation of the core competencies of English subject helps teachers to grasp teaching better and deeply, which will be useful for teachers to clearly apply the theories into teaching design, so as to achieve the purpose of educating people in English subject. This article interprets the core competencies of English subject in China and explains the meaning of related concepts: activity view on English learning and English subject ability. On this basis, this thesis will take a teaching design of a reading text in unit 5 in the 4<sup>th</sup> compulsory English book for senior high school students published by People’s Education Press as an example, to illustrate the realization of the core competencies of English as a subject in senior high school English reading teaching, which aims to provide enlightenment for teachers’ English reading teaching in senior high school in China.

scholarly journals The Application of Activity-based Method in English Reading Teaching in Senior High School

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Xuejuan Duan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Times ◽  
Reading Teaching

Activity-based method in English reading teaching in senior high school is put forward in the new National English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School (NECS). With the development of the times, the demand for hundreds of thousands of senior high school English teachers is changing, because educators stress a great attention to the application of the modern information technology and activity-based method. Therefore, around how to apply English activity-based method in the reading teaching in high school, this paper designs three learning activities to address the problems of the traditional teacher-centered teaching and the knowledge-orientated leaning. The result of this study can penetrate the consciousness of practical meaning into the frontline teachers by fully understanding the new conception and implementing it based on their own teaching needs.

scholarly journals The Use of Scaffolding Theory in the Teaching of Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Zhou
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
High School English ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Of Writing

"English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School (2017)" puts forward higher requirements for the writing ability of students: students can use the language knowledge and cultural knowledge they have learned to create new texts according to different purposes and audiences. Writing is a difficult point. However, the current domestic English writing teaching effect is not satisfactory. English writing teaching has not been paid enough attention, and students lack the initiative to learn English writing. Scaffolding theory encourages teachers to follow the "student-centered" classroom teaching model and build scaffolds based on the students' recent development areas, so as to promote students' knowledge construction and meaningful learning, stimulate students' interest in English learning, and improve their English writing level. This article analyzes the teaching of English writing from the perspective of scaffolding theory. First, it introduces the research background, expounds "Zone of Proximal Development" and scaffolding theory, and discusses in detail the five steps of scaffolding theory applied in high school English writing classrooms. Finally, three teaching inspirations and suggestions are provided in order to improve the teaching effect of high school English writing.

scholarly journals A Study on the Influence of Teachers' Questioning in High School English Reading Class on Students' Critical Thinking

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Wenjuan Song
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Reading Scores ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Class ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Cognitive Problems

This article studied whether teachers' questioning has an impact on the critical thinking of high school students in English class. Firstly, the author went to the practice school personally for a two-month classroom observation and recorded teachers’ question in the classroom. This article referred to Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, and divided the cognitive process into six dimensions: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create. The first two of the six types were primary cognitive problems, and the last four were advanced cognitive question. In order to analyze whether the questions help or improve the critical thinking of high school students, the author wrote down the number of each question asked and the proportion of the total number of questions. Then author gave the students questionnaires and interviewed teachers about relative questions. Based on the collected data, this article analyzed the correlation. This study showed a certain degree of positive correlation between the Teachers' questioning and the students' critical thinking scores through the classroom observation record table and the students' reading scores in the test, as well as the students' critical thinking questionnaire data.

scholarly journals The Cultivation of the Core Literacy of English Discipline in Senior High School based on “Post-method” Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Xingyuan Li
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
English Education ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Curriculum Standards ◽  
High School English ◽  
The Core ◽  
School Based ◽  
Core Literacy

The Curriculum Standards for General High School English (2017 edition) (hereinafter referred to as the Curriculum Standards) clearly states that the specific goal of general High school English curriculum is to cultivate and develop students’ core qualities such as language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality and learning ability after receiving high school English education. The cultivation of core literacy is a hotspot in the current research of basic English education. However, most researches are based on traditional English teaching methods and tend to apply traditional teaching methods to experimental studies in primary and secondary school classrooms, and few of them study how to cultivate students’ core literacy from a theoretical perspective. This article will discuss the cultivation of core literacy of English discipline based on the “post method” theory proposed by B. Kurumaravadivelu. Meanwhile, advice on cultivation of the core literacy of English discipline in high school based on post-method theory will be given.

scholarly journals The Senior High English Teaching Design Based on the Multiliteracies Pedagogy—From the Perspective of Cultivating Students’ Key Competency in English

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 681-687
Author(s):  
Xinzhu Liu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
English Class ◽  
Core Ability ◽  
Learning English

Based on people-oriented moral education, the Key Competency of Chinese Students’ Development highlights the importance of cultivating students’ key competency, which means that students should have the essential character and core ability to adjust lifelong development and meet the demand of social development. According to the High School English Curriculum Standard (2017 Edition), key competency in English refers to language ability, thinking quality, cultural character and learning ability. And on the basis of multiliteracies pedagogy, linguistic symbols and non-linguistic symbols are combined together to create a multimodal teaching environment. And students will obtain new knowledge through four main stages: situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing and transferred practice, leading students mobilize their multiple senses together when learning English and help improve their comprehensive competence, which is in line with cultivating students’ key competency in English. This paper will firstly make a brief introduction of key competency in English based on the High School English Curriculum Standard (2017 Edition) and analyze typical views of multiliteracies pedagogy, then take the reading passage, Learning English from Unit5 Languages around the World, compulsory I, PEP as an example, applying multiliteracies pedagogy to English class, in order to cultivate students’ key competency in English to some extent through multiliteracy training.

English Pragmatics in Ecuador

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 723
Author(s):  
Gerardo E. Heras Urgilés ◽  
Jean-Paul Jara Villacreces
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Research Project ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Curriculum

Research has revealed that developing the pragmatic ability is a key element for any second or foreign language learner. The present paper aims to shed some light on the issue of pragmatics as part of English teaching and learning in the context of Ecuador. This paper is part of a research project that will involve public high school English teachers of Cuenca, Ecuador. After extensive research, it has been found that even though pragmatics is now part of the new English curriculum in this country, research in this field of linguistics is almost nonexistent.

scholarly journals Research on Strategies to Effectively Promote English Reading Teaching in Junior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Haohao Xu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Teaching

Reading is not only one of the purposes of English teaching, but also an important way of English learning. Students’ knowledge of English reading enables them to read effectively. At this time, students’ reading focus will gradually shift from learning to using English to obtain information and experience the real purpose of English reading. The traditional junior high school English reading teaching can’t meet the requirements of the new curriculum reform and helps students achieve their initial learning goals. Based on the basic theoretical knowledge of English reading teaching, this article analyzes the problems encountered by teachers and students in the process of English reading teaching, and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures, hoping to promote the level of junior high school students’ English reading teaching.

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